Cult hit: Crusader Kings 2’s Monks & Mystics DLC is out

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Cults and orders of assassins, satananiacs, Hermetics, monks, and more are now roaming the historical simulation of Crusader Kings 2 [official site], if you buy the latest expansion anyway. Paradox today launched Monks and Mystics, which boshes in secret (and not-so secret) orders who reward loyalty with handy abilities, pops in holy relics and masterwork weapons, and more. In short, yes, you can sacrifice people in Lucifer’s name and try to summon a familiar.

As is the Paradox way, also out today is a big new update free for all players. It brings new features, useful changes, welcome fixes, and things that, y’know, sound funny. Sadly, the endless carousing has ended.

This seems to be a news post rather than a review, so I would not expect the writer to have played the game in question. Particularly since the game is the latest of a long string of DLC to an already complicated and deep game, and I don’t think it’s viewed as a “major” piece of DLC like Old Gods or Conclave was.

For anything more than brief impressions, you probably want to look at places like the ck2 subreddit.

This is a short news post, something RPS has done from its very start, written minutes after the DLC launched. A nuanced Wot I Think will not happen in that timeframe. Whether anyone will Wot I Think it depends on, as ever, what else they have going on and how much they’re into it. RPS has always done this.

No need for nuance: First impressions are also good! I come to RPS for the subjective content, as I can find identical news and press releases on every other gaming site. And like I suggested, I may just be getting old and grumpy, and I’ve filtered out all the short news reports that used to feature on the site.

I just noticed that Fraser Brown provides a good example of what I’m talking about in a tweet: “Crikey, CK2: Monks and Mystics is a bit messed up. I’ve sacrificed half of my pals to Satan, and I’ve given the other half lots of chicken.”

“An educator will no longer get the option to teach their student about their area of expertise if the student is dead” Yeah, the problem with dead students is that they never listen and thus never learn anything.

Undead students listen but they also never learn anything, because they lack the braaiinnnss!!!